is not special.
Kind of a bummer that The Number Twelve looks like you had to break up. 9 years playing good olde fashioned rock and roll.It’s certainly an acquired taste, like blood sausage. Brilliant musicians and fun music. But all things end, and they certainly ended on a high note. And now a ton of videos after the jump
Look what I received in the mail today! Mark Perez @faceofbass sent me a real physical copy of this band Ransom’s album “Against the grain”. Ransom is a self described melodic metal band but holy shit do they kick you in the balls. I take back my melodic band stance, at least for this band.
You can follow mark on twitter at @faceofbass as well as Ransom at @ransomIS check out their music at http://www.reverbnation.com/ransomis
Happy Holidays! since you’ve all been nice, I recorded this holiday ep just for you! (yes you)
All songs written and performed by me except xmasPolice which is a cover/re-interpretation of Radiohead’s Karma police okay it’s a parody… please don’t sue me?
Happy Holidays! share and enjoy.
Songs Downloads and Lyrics after the jump
Boston January 31st from Sergio Enciso on Vimeo.
So 8 months ago I posted something And here are the results of it. This was shot by photographer extraordinaire Matt Baldelli. And the Ghetto Beatz by Me. This was sort of a test to see if such thing was possible. The thing is we chose a very very cold day to do such testing.
Richard Lainhart performing a piece called Oraison, composed by Olivier Messiaen (original) in 1937 for six Ondes Martenot. He transcribed it for a Buchla 200e synthesizer and a Haken Continuum Fingerboard controller.
From the time I first touched the Haken Continuum, I’d wanted to use it to play a composition by Olivier Messiaen called “Oraison”. I first heard “Oraison” years ago as a student of electronic music, and had fallen in love with its simple, beautiful harmonies and profound sense of mystery.
Attending the Telefon Tel Aviv concert yesterday motivated me to do a little electronic show of my own at coffee shop type venue. I’m nowhere close to figuring out what songs to play or how I’m going to play them. However I did come up with some things to say between songs. Note: I these aren’t funny, that’s the point, Mr. point-out-obviousness-in-comic-book-guy’s-voice-kind-of-person.
Things to say between songs.
You can use these at your show if you’d like. Creative Commons and all that junk. Or you could make your own.
I’ll post something serious next time. Sorry about the photo Josh, you are very down to earth and make great music. AM-I-RITE?
the Ohm 64
Livid Instruments is now taking pre-orders for their incredibly attractive Open Source Midi Controler. It features an 8×8 grid of programmable back lit pads. 16 rotary knobs. 8 Faders, A cross fader and 8 mute/solo buttons and a tempo tap. It’s fully class compliant so no need to bother with drivers. It has Midi in and Midi out so you can control external devices with it. It’s USB powered It’s wood paneled which automatically means cool.
One of the main features of this is it’s openness. It comes with Open Source software tools to create your own LED talkback interaction. And could possible support OSC.
Each one comes with Ohm Core software included for MIDI editing, and LED talkback programming and Cell DNA video performance software included.
It ships in June and it’s available for pre-order now for $599
I’m considering getting one. If I do I’ll post a review.
You can find more information at their website Livid Instruments Ohm 64
Here is a sample video from them. There are more on their Blog.
TED is known to have amazing thinkers go out and give speaches that completely obliterate your mind. So it seems fitting that they had Kaki King go up on stage and blow your mind, not with words, but with music. Kaki was the first female on Rolling Stone’s “guitar god’ list . Though personally I think “guitar gods” are about as lame as they get I’m glad Kaki was put on the list. Not so much for being the first woman but for the way she approaches the guitar. She treats the guitar in a more percussive manner. Her music can be beautiful but can have an underlying sense of chaos and a little violence. I know shes’ been on here before mostly becasue I have a crush on her [ and every other girl ever] but I thought I’d share this with you.
MicroKorg + Pigtronix Echolution from Sergio Enciso on Vimeo.
MicroKorg running through an pigtronix echolution phi delay pedal